Tony Bello, PhD, CEO of Heritage Agro-Allied Foods, explains the role of starch functionality of dehydrated potato ingredients in the design and processing of grain-free petfood products, one of the industry’s fastest-growing categories.

Will Henry, director of technology R&D for Extru-Tech Inc., introduces and discusses the core principles of petfood extrusion validation, complete with a step-by-step analysis of protocol variability and a review of the industry’s first applicable scientific study.